Criteria for the Award:
The RaAM Early Career Research prize will be
awarded for the paper that best demonstrates
the following qualities, reflecting the stated
aims of the RaAM organisation:
- originality
- rigour in research methodology
- contribution to metaphor studies
- relevance and significance to a real world
context

Eligibility:
- Applicants must have been awarded a PhD
degree in the 4-year period immediately
preceding the RaAM Prize presentation date (or,
exceptionally, be enrolled/registered as a PhD
student). The date of the PhD award is taken as
the date the degree was conferred by the
university. For 2014, this is the period 1 May
2010 – May 2014.
- The applicant must be the sole author, or
first author having made the major contribution
to the paper. If not the sole author, the
applicant must include signed statements from
the other author(s) as to the level of the
applicant’s contribution.
- An applicant may submit only one paper in one
prize year.
- The paper submitted must be published in a
journal or edited collection, and must have
been peer-reviewed. It may be published in
print or electronically.
- It must be in print (or otherwise out in a
definitive, archived form in the public domain)
at the time of application.
- The paper must be centrally concerned with
metaphor in real world contexts.
- The paper may be in any language (see
below).

Procedure for Submitting a Paper:
- In each RaAM Conference year, there will be a
deadline for applications that will normally be
at least two months before the Conference. For
2014, this will be 31 March 2014.
- Applicants must submit their papers
(including an abstract) to the RaAM Prize Panel
by the deadline and to the address provided,
either in print (4 copies), in PDF, or by
pointing to a publicly accessible electronic
version.

Deadline for 2014: 31 March 2014

Mailing address for 2014: A.Musolffuea.ac.uk

Each application must be accompanied by
evidence that the applicant and the paper meet
the eligibility criteria set out above, i.e.
evidence of date of PhD award; evidence of main
authorship, if not sole author; evidence of
peer review (e.g., letter from editor).

If the paper is not written in English then the
applicant must supply a 1000-word abstract in
English, and must designate someone prepared to
translate the paper if the RaAM Prize Panel
requests this.

Judging and Awarding:
A RaAM Prize Panel will be formed at
appropriate points by the RaAM Executive
Committee, with term-limited membership. The
RaAM Prize Panel will be solely responsible for
deciding on eligibility and awards.

For 2014:
Professor Antonio Barcelona, University of
Córdoba
Dr Gill Philip, University of Macerata
Professor Andreas Musolff, University of East
Anglia

RaAM Executive Committee take due measures
against possible conflicts of interest, and
members of the Prize Panel will not be
connected to applicants or their PhD process,
e.g. as examiner or supervisor.
Awards will be announced at the end of the 2014
RaAM Conference.